New Jersey-based competition pit-master Doug Keiles let us in on his secret to making fried pork skins: He cooks the piece of pork the skin is attached to first. That provides you not just the meat to eat and the skins to fry, but the pork fat to sizzle them in.

After showing off our culinary skills over the holidays, this week our Nose-to-Tailgate recipe takes it back to basics with a simple, farmer approved technique for delicious porkchops. But first, the transformative power of a Nose-to-Tailgate...